diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
index 77a98cb9e..da3ed2d53 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/ChannelFeed.ui
@@ -414,7 +414,7 @@ p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
         </size>
        </property>
        <property name="styleSheet">
-        <string notr="true">QFrame{background-color: white;}</string>
+        <string notr="true"/>
        </property>
        <property name="frameShape">
         <enum>QFrame::StyledPanel</enum>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
index 986b14a43..8fb3ce171 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/feeds/ChanMsgItem.ui
@@ -6,37 +6,26 @@
    <rect>
     <x>0</x>
     <y>0</y>
-    <width>657</width>
-    <height>238</height>
+    <width>435</width>
+    <height>207</height>
    </rect>
   </property>
   <property name="windowTitle">
    <string>Form</string>
   </property>
-  <layout class="QGridLayout">
-   <property name="leftMargin">
-    <number>0</number>
-   </property>
-   <property name="topMargin">
-    <number>1</number>
-   </property>
-   <property name="rightMargin">
-    <number>0</number>
-   </property>
-   <property name="bottomMargin">
-    <number>1</number>
-   </property>
+  <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout_3">
    <item row="0" column="0">
     <widget class="QFrame" name="frame">
      <property name="sizePolicy">
-      <sizepolicy hsizetype="Expanding" vsizetype="Preferred">
+      <sizepolicy hsizetype="Expanding" vsizetype="Expanding">
        <horstretch>0</horstretch>
        <verstretch>0</verstretch>
       </sizepolicy>
      </property>
      <property name="styleSheet">
-      <string notr="true">QFrame#frame{border: 2px solid black;
-background: white;}</string>
+      <string notr="true">QFrame#frame{border: 3px solid #D3D3D3;
+background: white;
+border-radius: 10px;}</string>
      </property>
      <property name="frameShape">
       <enum>QFrame::StyledPanel</enum>
@@ -44,52 +33,26 @@ background: white;}</string>
      <property name="frameShadow">
       <enum>QFrame::Raised</enum>
      </property>
-     <layout class="QVBoxLayout">
-      <property name="topMargin">
-       <number>0</number>
-      </property>
-      <property name="bottomMargin">
-       <number>0</number>
-      </property>
-      <item>
-       <layout class="QHBoxLayout">
-        <item>
-         <widget class="QPushButton" name="clearButton">
-          <property name="sizePolicy">
-           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Minimum" vsizetype="Fixed">
-            <horstretch>0</horstretch>
-            <verstretch>0</verstretch>
-           </sizepolicy>
-          </property>
-          <property name="toolTip">
-           <string>Remove Item</string>
-          </property>
-          <property name="text">
-           <string/>
-          </property>
-          <property name="icon">
-           <iconset resource="../images.qrc">
-            <normaloff>:/images/close_normal.png</normaloff>:/images/close_normal.png</iconset>
-          </property>
-         </widget>
-        </item>
-        <item>
-         <spacer>
-          <property name="orientation">
-           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
-          </property>
-          <property name="sizeType">
-           <enum>QSizePolicy::Preferred</enum>
-          </property>
-          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
-           <size>
-            <width>16</width>
-            <height>26</height>
-           </size>
-          </property>
-         </spacer>
-        </item>
-        <item>
+     <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout_2">
+      <item row="0" column="0">
+       <widget class="QLabel" name="label">
+        <property name="maximumSize">
+         <size>
+          <width>120</width>
+          <height>90</height>
+         </size>
+        </property>
+        <property name="text">
+         <string/>
+        </property>
+        <property name="pixmap">
+         <pixmap resource="../images.qrc">:/images/no-preview.png</pixmap>
+        </property>
+       </widget>
+      </item>
+      <item row="0" column="1" rowspan="2">
+       <layout class="QGridLayout" name="gridLayout">
+        <item row="0" column="0" colspan="5">
          <widget class="QLabel" name="titleLabel">
           <property name="sizePolicy">
            <sizepolicy hsizetype="Minimum" vsizetype="Minimum">
@@ -99,33 +62,51 @@ background: white;}</string>
           </property>
           <property name="font">
            <font>
+            <pointsize>11</pointsize>
             <weight>75</weight>
             <italic>true</italic>
             <bold>true</bold>
            </font>
           </property>
           <property name="text">
-           <string>Connected</string>
+           <string>&lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC &quot;-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0//EN&quot; &quot;http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/strict.dtd&quot;&gt;
+&lt;html&gt;&lt;head&gt;&lt;meta name=&quot;qrichtext&quot; content=&quot;1&quot; /&gt;&lt;style type=&quot;text/css&quot;&gt;
+p, li { white-space: pre-wrap; }
+&lt;/style&gt;&lt;/head&gt;&lt;body style=&quot; font-family:'MS Shell Dlg 2'; font-size:11pt; font-weight:600; font-style:italic;&quot;&gt;
+&lt;p style=&quot; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px;&quot;&gt;&lt;span style=&quot; font-style:normal; color:#656565;&quot;&gt;Channel Subject&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;/body&gt;&lt;/html&gt;</string>
           </property>
          </widget>
         </item>
-        <item>
+        <item row="1" column="0" colspan="5">
+         <widget class="QLabel" name="subjectLabel">
+          <property name="sizePolicy">
+           <sizepolicy hsizetype="MinimumExpanding" vsizetype="Expanding">
+            <horstretch>0</horstretch>
+            <verstretch>0</verstretch>
+           </sizepolicy>
+          </property>
+          <property name="text">
+           <string>Channel Description</string>
+          </property>
+         </widget>
+        </item>
+        <item row="2" column="0">
          <spacer>
           <property name="orientation">
            <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
           </property>
           <property name="sizeType">
-           <enum>QSizePolicy::Preferred</enum>
+           <enum>QSizePolicy::Expanding</enum>
           </property>
           <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
            <size>
-            <width>1000</width>
+            <width>358</width>
             <height>20</height>
            </size>
           </property>
          </spacer>
         </item>
-        <item>
+        <item row="2" column="4">
          <widget class="QPushButton" name="expandButton">
           <property name="sizePolicy">
            <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
@@ -145,40 +126,47 @@ background: white;}</string>
           </property>
          </widget>
         </item>
-       </layout>
-      </item>
-      <item>
-       <layout class="QHBoxLayout">
-        <item>
-         <widget class="QLabel" name="subjectLabel">
+        <item row="2" column="3">
+         <widget class="QPushButton" name="playButton">
           <property name="sizePolicy">
-           <sizepolicy hsizetype="MinimumExpanding" vsizetype="Preferred">
+           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
             <horstretch>0</horstretch>
             <verstretch>0</verstretch>
            </sizepolicy>
           </property>
+          <property name="toolTip">
+           <string>Play Media</string>
+          </property>
           <property name="text">
-           <string>subjectLabel</string>
+           <string/>
+          </property>
+          <property name="icon">
+           <iconset resource="../images.qrc">
+            <normaloff>:/images/player_play.png</normaloff>:/images/player_play.png</iconset>
           </property>
          </widget>
         </item>
-        <item>
-         <spacer>
-          <property name="orientation">
-           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
+        <item row="2" column="2">
+         <widget class="QPushButton" name="clearButton">
+          <property name="sizePolicy">
+           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
+            <horstretch>0</horstretch>
+            <verstretch>0</verstretch>
+           </sizepolicy>
           </property>
-          <property name="sizeType">
-           <enum>QSizePolicy::Preferred</enum>
+          <property name="toolTip">
+           <string>Remove Item</string>
           </property>
-          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
-           <size>
-            <width>500</width>
-            <height>20</height>
-           </size>
+          <property name="text">
+           <string/>
           </property>
-         </spacer>
+          <property name="icon">
+           <iconset resource="../images.qrc">
+            <normaloff>:/images/close_normal.png</normaloff>:/images/close_normal.png</iconset>
+          </property>
+         </widget>
         </item>
-        <item>
+        <item row="2" column="1">
          <widget class="QPushButton" name="unsubscribeButton">
           <property name="sizePolicy">
            <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
@@ -198,45 +186,9 @@ background: white;}</string>
           </property>
          </widget>
         </item>
-        <item>
-         <spacer>
-          <property name="orientation">
-           <enum>Qt::Horizontal</enum>
-          </property>
-          <property name="sizeType">
-           <enum>QSizePolicy::Fixed</enum>
-          </property>
-          <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
-           <size>
-            <width>20</width>
-            <height>20</height>
-           </size>
-          </property>
-         </spacer>
-        </item>
-        <item>
-         <widget class="QPushButton" name="playButton">
-          <property name="sizePolicy">
-           <sizepolicy hsizetype="Fixed" vsizetype="Fixed">
-            <horstretch>0</horstretch>
-            <verstretch>0</verstretch>
-           </sizepolicy>
-          </property>
-          <property name="toolTip">
-           <string>Play Media</string>
-          </property>
-          <property name="text">
-           <string/>
-          </property>
-          <property name="icon">
-           <iconset resource="../images.qrc">
-            <normaloff>:/images/startall.png</normaloff>:/images/startall.png</iconset>
-          </property>
-         </widget>
-        </item>
        </layout>
       </item>
-      <item>
+      <item row="2" column="0" colspan="2">
        <widget class="QFrame" name="expandFrame">
         <property name="frameShape">
          <enum>QFrame::StyledPanel</enum>
@@ -265,11 +217,25 @@ background: white;}</string>
      </layout>
     </widget>
    </item>
+   <item row="1" column="0">
+    <spacer name="verticalSpacer_2">
+     <property name="orientation">
+      <enum>Qt::Vertical</enum>
+     </property>
+     <property name="sizeHint" stdset="0">
+      <size>
+       <width>200</width>
+       <height>1</height>
+      </size>
+     </property>
+    </spacer>
+   </item>
   </layout>
  </widget>
  <resources>
   <include location="../images.qrc"/>
   <include location="../images.qrc"/>
+  <include location="../images.qrc"/>
  </resources>
  <connections/>
 </ui>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
index 01a644015..de300e683 100644
--- a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
+++ b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images.qrc
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 <RCC>
     <qresource prefix="/" >
+        <file>images/no-preview.png</file>
         <file>images/rs_wizard.png</file>
         <file>images/about.png</file>
         <file>images/irkick.png</file>
diff --git a/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/no-preview.png b/retroshare-gui/src/gui/images/no-preview.png
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a30474c86
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